In May 2005 Spanish newspapers reported widely on an attempt by Universitat Politècnica de Valencia in Spain to block a talk by Cortell. The story was reportedly picked up by a large number of bloggers and Cortell resigned from his post at the University.

Cortell was "invited by the ETSIA Student Union and Linux Users' Group" to give a talk at the University analysing the legal use and benefits of the P2P networks, "even when dealing with copyrighted works" according to Cortell.[1] At the time Cortell was a teaching assistant on intellectual property at the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia. On May 4, 2005 he was forced to resign, after his very critical talk on Intellectual Property. Cortell eventually gave the talk at the university cafeteria.

Some months after the incident, the dean admitted that he had been pressured by the Spanish Recording Industry Association (Promusicae) in a quote to the national newspaper El País, and also by the MPAA as appeared in another newspaper. [2]

2005-11-21 Sevilla, Facultad de Comunicación of the Universidad de Sevilla. Round table "Música y derechos de propiedad intellectual", composed by a SGAE representer, an AIE member, Pedro of Zemos98.org, the singer Kiko Veneno, the sister of María Jiménez, the producer Antonio Escobar and Cortell. Eventually, both SGAE and AIE members did not come to the round table alleging personal problems with one of the members of the table, Cortell himself. [4]

2005-11-21 Murcia, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia. On the circle of conferences of its patronal festivities.

2005-11-16 Barcelona, Ateneu Barcelonés. Round table of the Campaña contra la Trazabilidad sin orden judicial (Campaign against traceability without order from judge)[5], with David de Ugarte(Ciberpunk) and Javier Cuchí (Asociación de Internautas).[6][7][8][9]

2005-11-12 A coruño, Coliseum de A Coruña.

2005-11-10 Vigo, Edificio Miralles, of Ciudad Universitaria, Campus de Vigo. Part of Charlas-conferencias sobre el copyleft, la música, etc., organized by the Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria of the Universidad de Vigo. With David Bravo and Ignasi Labastida.

2005-10-31 Murcia, Murcia Lan Party.

2005-10-31 Tarragona, Sala Santiago Costa de la Diputació. Part of the Tinet congress, organized by OASI.